CAF Super Cup
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Organising body | CAF |
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Founded | 1993 |
Region | Africa |
Number of teams | 2 |
Current champions | RS Berkane (1st title) |
Most successful club(s) | Al Ahly (8 titles) |
Website | Official website |
2022 CAF Super Cup |
The CAF Super Cup (also known as African Super Cup or for sponsorship reasons TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup) is an annual African association football competition contested between the winners of the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup. The competition was first held in 1993 and is organized by the CAF.
Egyptian clubs have the highest number of victories (12 titles), followed by Morocco with 5. Morocco have the largest number of winning teams, with four clubs from each having won the title. The competition has been won by 16 clubs, 6 of which have won it more than once. Al Ahly is the most successful club in the competition's history, having won the tournament a record 8 times. RS Berkane are the current defending champions, having beaten Wydad AC by two goals to nil in the 2022 CAF Super Cup.[1]
History
The idea of an African Supercup germinated and was introduced at the Fraternity Tournament in Abidjan. In 1982, JS Kabylie, winner of the African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1981, won this trophy by defeating the winner of the African Cup Winners' Cup, Union Douala, on penalties 4–3 after the score of 1–1. But this cup did not officially see the light of day until 1993 under the name of the CAF Super Cup.
It is played in a single match and on the field of the winner of the Champions League (exception in 2007). Until 2003, the African Supercup pitted the winner of the Champions League against the winner of the African Cup Winners' Cup. When the latter disappeared, it was the winner of the Confederation Cup who took the place.
On only five occasions, the winner of the C1 lost in this competition: the Ivorian club Africa Sports d'Abidjan beat the Moroccans Wydad AC in the first edition in Abidjan in 1993, the ES Sahel have beat Raja CA in 1997, Maghreb de Fès beat ES Tunis in 2012, Raja CA and Zamalek SC beat ES Tunis in 2019 and 2020.
Fez Maghreb is the first Confederation Cup winning club to have won the CAF Supercup since the CAF Champions League winner clashed with the Confederation Cup winner.[2]
Sponsorship
In July 2016, Total secured an eight-year sponsorship package from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to support 10 of its principal competitions. Total started with the Africa Cup of Nations that was held in Gabon therefore renaming it Total Africa cup of Nations.[3] Due to this sponsorship, starting from 2017 the tournament is called the "Total CAF Super Cup".
Title Sponsor | Official Sponsors |
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Records and statistics
Winners
Club | Winners | Runners-up | Years won | Years runner-up |
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Al Ahly | 8 | 2 | 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2021 (May), 2021 (Dec) | 1994, 2015 |
Zamalek | 4 | 1 | 1994, 1997, 2003, 2020 | 2001 |
TP Mazembe | 3 | 2 | 2010, 2011, 2016 | 2017, 2018 |
Étoile Sportive du Sahel | 2 | 3 | 1998, 2008 | 2004, 2007, 2016 |
Raja CA | 2 | 2 | 2000, 2019 | 1998, 2021 (Dec) |
Enyimba | 2 | 0 | 2004, 2005 | — |
Espérance Sportive de Tunis | 1 | 4 | 1995 | 1999, 2012, 2019, 2020 |
Wydad AC | 1 | 3 | 2018 | 1993, 2003, 2022 |
Africa Sports | 1 | 1 | 1993 | 2000 |
Hearts of Oak | 1 | 1 | 2001 | 2005 |
RS Berkane | 1 | 1 | 2022 | 2021 (May) |
Orlando Pirates | 1 | 0 | 1996 | — |
ASEC Mimosas | 1 | 0 | 1999 | — |
Maghreb Fes | 1 | 0 | 2012 | — |
ES Sétif | 1 | 0 | 2015 | — |
Mamelodi Sundowns | 1 | 0 | 2017 | — |
CS Sfaxien | 0 | 3 | — | 2008, 2009, 2014 |
DC Motema Pembe | 0 | 1 | — | 1995 |
JS Kabylie | 0 | 1 | — | 1996 |
Al Mokawloon Al Arab | 0 | 1 | — | 1997 |
Kaizer Chiefs FC | 0 | 1 | — | 2002 |
AS FAR | 0 | 1 | — | 2006 |
Stade Malien | 0 | 1 | — | 2010 |
Fath Union Sport | 0 | 1 | — | 2011 |
AC Léopards | 0 | 1 | — | 2013 |
By country
Nation | Winners | Runners-up | Total |
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Egypt | 12 | 4 | 16 |
Morocco | 5 | 8 | 13 |
Tunisia | 3 | 10 | 13 |
DR Congo[B] | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Ivory Coast | 2 | 1 | 3 |
South Africa | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Nigeria | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Algeria | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Ghana | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Mali | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Congo | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Prize money
In 2017 and 2018, prize money shared between CAF Champions League winner and CAF Confederations Cup winner in CAF Super Cup were as following :[8]
Final position |
Money awarded to club |
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Winner | US$100,000 |
Runners-up | US$75,000 |
Since 2019, prize money in CAF Super Cup are as following :[9]
Final position |
Money awarded to club |
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Winner | US$200,000 |
Runners-up | US$150,000 |
Media coverage
See also
References
- ^ Football, CAF-Confedération Africaine du. "RS Berkane win their first ever TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup". CAFOnline.com. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
- ^ "Al Ahly chase another record". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
- ^ "Total to sponsor CAF competitions for the next eight years". Africa News. Africa News. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
- ^ "TOTAL, TITLE SPONSOR OF THE AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS AND PARTNER OF AFRICAN FOOTBALL", CAF, 21 July 2016
- ^ "ORANGE SIGNS NEW EIGHT-YEAR PARTNERSHIP WITH CAF", CAF, 16 December 2016
- ^ "QNET ANNOUNCES SPONSORSHIP OF TOTAL CAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, TOTAL CAF CONFEDERATION CUP, TOTAL CAF SUPER CUP", CAF, 24 February 2018
- ^ "1XBET - OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF THE CONFÉDÉRATION AFRICAINE DE FOOTBALL (CAF) TOURNAMENTS", CAF, 6 February 2019
- ^ "Prize money for CAF competitions effective 2017". cafonline.com.
- ^ "Prize money for CAF Super Cup". Radiomars.ma.
External links
- CAF Super Cup at CAFonline.com
- RSSSF
- CAF Super Cup summary - Soccerway